xterm -si doesn't hold the line

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Maier
Hi, xterm -si doesn't work as expected. To reproduce (think of a tail -f instead of xev): 1. xterm -si -e /bin/xev 2. move the mouse in the xev window to produce some lines 3. scroll the xterm up half way and remember the visible lines 4. while looking at the xterm, again move the mouse in the

Re: xterm -si doesn't hold the line

2012-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:49:22PM +0200, Paul Maier wrote: Hi, xterm -si doesn't work as expected. The short answer is that it's always been that way :-) This refers to the scrollTtyOutput, which in xterm is described: scrollTtyOutput (class ScrollCond) Specifies